Docker Contracts in the Thames Valley

Docker
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 85 87
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 -18
Contract jobs citing Docker 34 54 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.27% 2.07% 2.10%
As % of the System Software category 18.28% 16.51% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 35
10th Percentile £321 £425 £413
25th Percentile £455 £491 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +7.95% +7.32%
75th Percentile £501 £659 £675
90th Percentile £663 £695 £753
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -9.05% -5.17% +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £48.13 £58.19
25th Percentile - £50.94 £60.16
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year - -12.62% -
75th Percentile - £60.94 £67.66
90th Percentile - £63.38 £69.06
South East median hourly rate - £56.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +57.89%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 186 327 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.41% 12.56% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 232 260
10th Percentile £210 £205 £213
25th Percentile £330 £325 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £481
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.45% +5.62%
75th Percentile £636 £608 £588
90th Percentile £700 £650 £676
South East median daily rate £501 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 15
10th Percentile - £16.25 £31.00
25th Percentile - £46.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +311.99%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile - - £79.12
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £54.88 £54.56
% change year-on-year +2.51% +0.58% +172.80%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +15 31 £500 -16.67% 73
Buckinghamshire +11 2 £311 -46.00% 26
Oxfordshire -2 1 £550 +10.00% 35
Docker
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (79.41%) AWS
2 21 (61.76%) Azure
3 10 (29.41%) Serverless
4 8 (23.53%) GitHub
5 7 (20.59%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (14.71%) Azure AKS
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) GCP
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (5.88%) Azure App Service
9 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.88%) npm
10 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) BGP
1 3 (8.82%) MPLS
1 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
1 3 (8.82%) VLAN
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.88%) DocumentDB
2 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (29.41%) SonarQube
3 9 (26.47%) Cucumber
3 9 (26.47%) GitLab
3 9 (26.47%) JIRA
3 9 (26.47%) REST Assured
3 9 (26.47%) Selenium
4 5 (14.71%) Git
5 3 (8.82%) JUnit
5 3 (8.82%) Mockito
5 3 (8.82%) Robot Framework
6 2 (5.88%) JMeter
7 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.94%) DbUnit
7 1 (2.94%) jMock
7 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Law
4 4 (11.76%) Police
4 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.88%) Finance
7 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Java Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Java Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Automation Tester
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Telecoms Tester
5 3 (8.82%) Tester
6 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) React Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (47.06%) REST
2 9 (26.47%) ARM Templates
2 9 (26.47%) Java EE
3 8 (23.53%) JSON
4 4 (11.76%) HTML
5 3 (8.82%) .NET
5 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
5 3 (8.82%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (8.82%) Hibernate
5 3 (8.82%) Node.js
5 3 (8.82%) React
5 3 (8.82%) Spring
5 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.82%) Web Services
6 2 (5.88%) FastAPI
6 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.88%) Next.js
6 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
6 2 (5.88%) Swagger
6 2 (5.88%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
1 5 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Containerisation
1 23 (67.65%) DevOps
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (38.24%) Test Automation
4 11 (32.35%) Configuration Management
4 11 (32.35%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
5 9 (26.47%) Scrum
5 9 (26.47%) Software Architecture
5 9 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (23.53%) Microservices
7 6 (17.65%) Agile
7 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
8 5 (14.71%) DevSecOps
8 5 (14.71%) TDD
8 5 (14.71%) Test Strategy
9 4 (11.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) Bicep
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.82%) C#
4 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (2.94%) CCSP
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.94%) CISSP
2 1 (2.94%) OSCP
2 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) HL7
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.94%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (79.41%) Kubernetes
2 16 (47.06%) Terraform
3 15 (44.12%) Ansible
4 9 (26.47%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (26.47%) Podman
5 2 (5.88%) Kibana
5 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.82%) Splunk
2 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.94%) New Relic
3 1 (2.94%) Rapid7